Reverend & The Makers frontman Jon McClure has revealed his pledge to quit the music industry was a result of being ‘depressed’ and going a bit round the bend.
In an interview with Q Radio, the singer – who has since changed his mind about turning his back on the business – said the frustrations of the music world had got to him when he said the next Reverend album would be his last.
McClure, who is about to release an album for free from his side-project Mongrel, said: “I don’t regret saying it because ultimately I got down in the dumps and I got a bit depressed and I got a bit ill – the reason I said it was because it was affecting my health and, unfortunately, when you’re in a band people don’t want to listen to things like that, but if I were a plasterer and I went ‘I might give up plastering it’s hurting me back’, people would be fine with it. It was making me ill how stressed out and frustrating music is. I were like ‘you know what – maybe I don’t need this and maybe I should become a kind of fisherman or something’
McClure told QPM host Samanthi he had been due to perform in the US on The Late Show with David Letterman and “earn lots of money”. But he said: “I didn’t feel comfortable doing that so I booked a gig in Lebanon and did the Mongrel thing and I feel a lot more content now because I can make records that I want.” He is currently putting the finishing touches to second Makers album A French Kiss In The Chaos which he said was “the sound of me going a bit round the bend last year”.
McClure said his decision to release the Mongrel album free with The Independent this Saturday was an attempt to get to grips with the reality of the ailing industry.
“The music industry does my head in and they are all scrabbling around trying to make money and I thought how can we make money cos everyone is nicking songs on the internet. Engage with realities man. You can’t make something for 50 pence and sell it for 13 quid and not expect people to want to take it for nothing. So I thought let’s be real let’s engage with the modern world. Gve the album away – The Independent can give me back the costs of making it.”
You can hear the full interview in QPM tonight (Wednesday) from 6pm.
4:47 PM | 04/03/2009
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